Dutch Money

Money Design

When one designs money, especially an official banknote, there are two basic ways you can go:

confine yourself to the (said) abilities of current technologies, following the masses, and find yourself, most of the time, with a result which isn't as you intended;

go to the limits of the current technologies and then cross them to get the result you actually had in mind and be a rebel.

So what, you may say. Well, the outcome can be very different. Here are some examples of the conservative approach (names and pictures have been modified to protect the accused):

Although this banknote is no longer in circulation for many years, it shows how basic and dull gray a banknote usually is.

Wow, this one has some colour! (It is still in circulation.)

Any foreigner who starts using these bills easily mistakes a 1 dollar bill for a 100 dollar bill.
That's not ease-of-use!
And this is the third greyish bank note, to quote a newspaper:
'The [dollar] is worldwide the easiest to counterfeit. The note only has two colours, is made from paper the toilet-paper company ignores and has no watermark'.
(BTW The Treasurer who signed this bill was convicted to four months imprisonment in 1994 because of tax fraud charges.)